Serenity Quotes - Page 2

• Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Forgiveness, Problems Love, New Day

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• Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Fitness, Buddhist, Exercise

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• I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity. I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

  Beverly Sills

  Love, Feel Better, Maturity

  "Bubbles: A Self-portrait". Book by Beverly Sills, p. 114, 1976.

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• Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

  Victoria Moran

  Acceptance, Life Is, Harmony

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• Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

  Johnny Miller

  Knowing, Quiet, Shots

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• Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

  Thomas Szasz

  Happiness, Patience, Attitude

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, World, Stillness

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Favourite, Accurate

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• Well being, serenity and service to others are the ultimate measures of true wealth, success and power

  Brendon Burchard

  Wealth, Service To Others, Well Being

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• I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Wind, Free Spirit

  "Serenity". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

  Hongzhi Zhengjue

  Life, Teaching, Reflection

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• In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

  Simone Weil

  Grief, Struggle, Quiet

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• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Depressing, Art

  Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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• Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

  William Gibson

  Enlightenment, Ends, Grows

  William Gibson (1974). “A season in heaven: being the log of an expedition after that legendary beast, cosmic consciousness”, Scribner

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• It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Prayer, Voice

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• I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

  Keith Miller

  Firsts, Quiet, First Time

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now

  Eckhart Tolle

  Rocks, Mindfulness, Life Is

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.62, New World Library

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• The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Moving On, Wisdom, Achievement

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.63, University of Chicago Press

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Grace, Degrees

  1934 Reflections on the End of Our Era.

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• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Peace, War

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• Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

  Franz Liszt

  Art, Light, Shapes

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• Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

  David Zippel

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Winning

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